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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 583 

Honoring the vital role of small business and the passion of entrepreneurs 

in the United States during ‘‘National Small Business Week’’, beginning 

on May 12, through May 16, 2014. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 13, 2014 

Mr. GOSAR (for himself, Mr. CA ́RDENAS, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. TIPTON, 

Ms. MATSUI, Mr. POCAN, Mr. KILMER, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. 

SIMPSON, Mr. CHABOT, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, 

Mr. ENYART, Mr. BENISHEK, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Ms. MCCOLLUM, 

Mr. VEASEY, Ms. TITUS, Mr. COSTA, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. 

TAKANO, Mrs. WALORSKI, Mr. OWENS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. GARCIA, Mr. 

SALMON, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. 

SWALWELL of California, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. BENTIVOLIO, Ms. 

BORDALLO, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. COLLINS of New York, 

Ms. CHU, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. ESTY, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. 

JOYCE, and Mr. LOEBSACK) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on Small Business 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the vital role of small business and the passion 

of entrepreneurs in the United States during ‘‘National 

Small Business Week’’, beginning on May 12, through 

May 16, 2014. 

Whereas this year marks the 51st anniversary of ‘‘National 

Small Business Week’’ and has been endorsed by every 

President since 1963; 


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Whereas for the first time in its history four cities, including 

San Francisco, Kansas City, Boston, and Washington, 

DC, will host speakers and events celebrating National 

Small Business Week; 

Whereas the approximately 28,000,000 small businesses in 

the United States, which are the leading force behind the 

United States economy, creating nearly 7 out of every 10 

new jobs and generating close to 50 percent of the Nation’s nonfarm gross domestic product; 

Whereas small firms accounted for 63 percent of net new jobs 

created between 1993 and mid-2013, and since the end 

of the recession small firms accounted for 60 percent of 

the net new jobs; 

Whereas 22,000,000 small businesses are nonemployer sole 

proprietorship firms; 

Whereas 2,450,000 veterans are small business owners and 

account for 9.1 percent of all United States businesses; 

Whereas woman owned firms have increased as a share of 

total businesses and include over 7,800,000 small businesses; 

Whereas small businesses employ 48.5 percent of the country’s private workforce; 

Whereas small businesses represent 37 percent of high-tech 

employment; 

Whereas small businesses produce 16 times more patents per 

employee than large patenting firms; 

Whereas small businesses represent 98 percent of all exporters and produce 33 percent of exported goods; 

Whereas on July 30, 1953, Congress created the Small Business Administration to aid, counsel, assist, and protect 


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the interests of small businesses in order to preserve free 

and competitive enterprise, to ensure that a fair proportion of the total sales of government property are made 

to small businesses, and to maintain and strengthen the 

overall economy of the United States; 

Whereas for more than 50 years, the Small Business Administration has helped over 10,000,000 entrepreneurs reach 

the American dream of creating and maintaining a small 

business, and has played a key role in fostering local and 

national economic growth; and 

Whereas the President has designated the week beginning 

May 12, 2014, as ‘‘National Small Business Week’’: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) honors the vital role of small business and 

3 entrepreneurs in the United States during ‘‘National 

4 Small Business Week’’; 

5 (2) supports the designation of ‘‘National Small 

6 Business Week’’; 

7 (3) recognizes the important role of the Small 

8 Business Administration as a valuable resource for 

9 the United States entrepreneur; 

10 (4) supports and encourages young entre11 preneurs to pursue their passions and create more 

12 start-up businesses; 

13 (5) recognizes the importance of creating poli14 cies that promote a business friendly environment 


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1 for small business owners free of unnecessary and 

2 burdensome regulations and red tape; 

3 (6) recognizes the National Small Business Per4 son of the Year and the National Lender of the 

5 Year; and 

6 (7) supports efforts to— 

7 (A) encourage consumers to shop locally; 

8 and 

9 (B) increase awareness of the value of lo10 cally owned small businesses and the impact of 

11 locally owned small business on the economy of 

12 the United States. 

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